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Australian Student wins international inventions
prize for extracting water from air
White Hat congratulates Ed Linacre, a design student
at Swinburne University of Technology, for winning the prestigious
international James Dyson Award for his invention of a system of
extracting water from the air in drought prone country and directing
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Even if it hasn’t rained for months, the air still
contains some water vapour. In fact warm is capable of holding more
water vapour than cold air as anyone who has lived in the tropics
will know. When warm air comes in contact with a cold surface some
of the water vapour will condense, hence the misted-up windscreen on
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to cool the air, extract the moisture and distribute it at root
level to to the crop. You can read a description of how it works
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Germany Sets Aside $130 Billion for Renewable
Energy
German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on 30 May
that Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy and Europe's
biggest, would shutter all of its 17 nuclear power plants between
2015 and 2022, an extraordinary commitment, given that they
currently produce about 28 percent of the country's electricity.It
is by any yardstick an extraordinary (and expensive) commitment that
may well have the collateral benefit of unlocking similar funding
worldwide for renewable energy projects.
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